Pipe collar or ring.



PATBNTED MAY 3, 1904.

J. STRAND.

PIPE COLLAR 0R RING.

APPLIOATION Hmm JAN. z, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

UNTTTQD STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

JACOB STRAND, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

PIPE COLLAR OR RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,870, dated May 3, 1904.

Application tiled January 2, 1904. Serial No. 187,467. (No model.)

T all wif/.ont it www concern:

Be it known that l, JACOB STRAND, a citizen of the United States, residing in Manhattan borough, New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pipe Collars or Rings, of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relates to rings or collars which are designed to be used in connection with stove, steam, or other pipes to effect a finish where the pipe enters an opening'.

The object of this invention is to provide a ring which may be adjusted to lit pipes of various diameters and also to produce an inexpensive and etlicient device.

The drawings accompanying the present specification illustrate an embodiment of my invention, in which- Figure l illustrates a strip of sheet metal bent upon itself to formaring and shows one end in dotted lines. Fig'. 2 illustrates the same bent upon itself to form a ring, the inner diameter' of which is smaller than the one shown in Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a detail showing one of the tongues or prongs around the inner side of the rings bent outwardly.

Similar characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the figures.

A strip of sheet metal is bent upon itself to form a ring l, which in the present instance is stamped or otherwise formed to produce struck-up projections 2, serving as ornamentations, all of which are preferably alike, and this strip along one edge is provided with a plurality of scallops or prongs 3, which extend outwardly in pairs from the base of said projections. Near one extremity of the strip is an opening et, and for a certain distance along the strip at its other end is a plurality of holes 5, 6, and 7, and all of these holes are preferably located in a line along the longitudinal axis of the strip and preferably between the struck-up portions 2 aforementioned. lV hen the ends of the strips are overlappedfor instance, as seen in Fig. lekto form the ring, the outer portion of the struckup portions 2 on one portion of the strip will register or lie into the inner portion of the struck-up portion on the other end of' the strip, and in this way there is an interlocking relation between the two ends of the strip, besides that locking which is accomplished by means of' the cleat 8, which is passed through the opening' 4 and any of the other openings aforementioned. The strip or ring around its inner edge is provided with a plurality ofl slits 9, which pass between the tongues or prongs and through the top portion of the struck-up portions Q. These slits, as is obvious, permit the inner edge of the ring to give when the collar is spread open to lita large pipe. Thus it will be seen that if it is desired to make the ring small, so as to lit on a pipe of small diameter, the end will be carried over the end 1l until the opening 4 in said end 10 registers with the opening' farthest away from the end 11, when the cleat 8 can be passed through the registering opening to lock the same in position, andthe struck-up portions of the one end falling over the struck-u p portions of the other will tend to reinforce the locking of the device. lf it is desired t0 lit a pipe of a little larger size, the opening 4 will be made to register with the opening' 5 or 6 or 7, as the case may require, and in that way the inner diameter of the ring-opening is enlarged. lf it should become necessary to fit a pipe whose dimensions are between those which these various adjustments of the ring may provide, the intei-mediate fitting may be accomplished by outwardly bending the prongs 3 in a manner, for instance, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. Thus it will be seen that I have produced an efiicient devicel and one which is cheap.

This ring may be fitted around the ordinary-size pipe by suitable adjustments thereof.

lt is to be understood, 0f course, that the ring may be made in various sizes, each size being adjustable to various other sizes within limits, so as to provide for the fitting of very small to very large pipes. It will also be seen that while the invention primarily maybe directed to stovcpipe-collars yet the same may be also applied to collars which are used around water-pipes, drain-pipes, steam-pipes, and the like.

Having thus described my invention, I claimM 1. As an article of' manufacture, an element bent upon itself` to form a ring having projec- Ations extending outwardly from the face of said element, and prongs proceeding from the base of each projection and around the inner edge of said ring, and having a slit between each pair of prongs which extends into the top of a corresponding projection, and means for locking the ends of said element when in different overlapped positions.

2.' As an article of manufacture, an element bent upon itself to form a ring and provided with projections extending outwardly from the face of said element, and with prongs proceeding from the base of each projection and around the inner edge of the ring and having a slit between each pair of prongs which extends into the top of the corresponding projection, and a cleat for locking the ends of said element when in different overlapped positions.

3. A stovepipe-ring comprising a split member whose free ends are adapted to overlap in different positions to form a ring of different diameters and having prongs around said ring in the inner edge-thereof, and struck-up portions around the face of said ring, the face of some of which when the ends are overlapped take into the hollows of others, and means for locking the overlapped ends.

4. Astovepipe-ringoomprisingasplitmember whose free ends are adapted to overlap in different positions to form a ring of different diameters and prongs around the inner edge thereof, of struck-np portions around the face of said ring, the faces of some of which, when the ends are overlapped, take into the hollows of others, and a cleat for locking the overlapped ends.

Signed at Nos. 9 to 15 Murray street, New York, N. Y., this 30th day of December, 1903.

JACOB STRAND. lNitnesses:

FRED. W. BARNACLO, JOHN O. SEIFERT. 

